Our first field trip was a success!! This past weekend our group traveled by train to Prague, and with it being the first big European city that I have been to, I was pleasantly surprised and I was a bit sad when we had to leave. When we got there we got settled into our hostel and started our day with a walking tour to the Astronomical Clock, Charles Bridge and the John Lennon Wall. Of course all of these things to see make for excellent pictures. Prague was packed when we were there with the beginning of the seasons tourism and the Easter celebrations were starting up with some little stands to buy souvenirs and really good food.
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| The John Lennon Wall |
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| Astronomical Clock |
The second day in Prague we took a trek up so we could tour the cathedral at the top where St. Wenceslas is buried along with about twelve other saints. The architecture was unbelievable and the church in general was so overwhelmingly beautiful.
After we were done with the tour of the cathedral, we got to explore the city for ourselves. A group of us decided we wanted to eat together and go a little off the beaten path to find food that is cheaper. Off the beaten path ended up being lost about five miles away from anything that looked even relatively familiar to any of us and ended up in a suburb of Prague. We walked for a very long time and being the dramatic young adults that we are, we were complaining as if we were going to die if we didn't get food. We found a pizza/pasta place that was cheap and delicious and there were definitely tears of happiness shed over the Italian food. When we were done eating we went to the Prague Eiffel Tower. Since our legs were numb anyways we climbed stairs up to the top to see a beautiful view of the entire city.
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| The view from the Prague Eiffel Tower |
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| From the Prague Castle |
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| The view we walked MILES for |
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| St. Wenceslas Cathedral |
The next morning was an early one, because we had to catch the train to Dresden, Germany. Just taking a day trip to Germany was just something I didn't think I would ever say I would do. It is a very pretty city that just happened to be very badly bombed during World War II. Our first stop was the Frauenkirche Lutheran Church. It was almost completely knocked down during the bombing. The people who reconstructed it after the bombing took the original bricks from the old church and put them in the exact place where they were before it got bombed. After that we tried some excellent schnitzel and bratwursts. We were lucky enough to go to the top of the church to see a view of Dresden. I really enjoyed Dresden and I wish I could have stayed for more than just a day trip.
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Our last day in Prague consisted of a tour of the old Jewish ghetto, a synagogue and the Jewish cemetery. We went into the synagogue and on the walls were all of the peoples names from the Czech Republic who were killed during the Holocaust. It was overwhelming and startling to see that there were over 80,000 names written on all of the walls. And in the cemetery there was not much to do but stare and be baffled at the amount of tombstones that were piled on top of each other in such a small space. It was a very heavy experience to say the least.
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| Some of the gravestones in the Jewish Cemetery |
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| Some of the names on the wall of the Synagogue |
With this weekend being our first field trip as a group, I thought it was a blast and I am so excited to go on our next one.
STATS OF THE TRIP
- Flights of stairs climbed: 58
- Hours slept: 13 out of 72
- Laughs: at least 1,000,000
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